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DAVID BUTLER
|THLETES, with inborn qualifications for the play, have proven especially acceptable to stage and cinema. In the throng of actors, and even actresses, who have made good are to be found many who discovered that physical prowess was a distinct asset in many ways during, the climb up the ladder of histrionic fame.
Among these athletic persons who became favorites of the entertainment-loving public are not a few Californians, prominent among them being David Butler.
Mr. Butler was born on December 17, 1894, in San Francisco, California, where he received most of his education, attending grammar and high schools. Later he went t o Hitchcock Military Academy and then to Stanford University.
M r . Butler was quite an athlete during his high school and college days, taking part in swimming meets, baseball, football and basket ball matches.
It was while in San Francisco as a child that Mr. Butler appeared on the stage at the Alcazar Theatre, where his father, Fred J. Butler, well-known stage director, was in charge. At the same theatre his mother, known in the profession as Adele Belgarde, was playing many parts.
Up to a few years ago, the Butler family lived in San Francisco, but then wended their way southward to Los Angeles, where Mr. Butler's father became stage director at the Morosco Theatre.
Dave Butler on It leading lady.
It was while playing with the Morosco stock company in Los Angeles that D. W. Griffith first saw David Butler. At that time the noted director was preparing to start work on "The Greatest Thing in Life," and after watching the performance of the young actor, he went back stage and signed him for the role of "Monsieur Bebe" opposite Lillian Gish.
Mr. Butler filled this part so well that he was kept under the Griffith banner for a leading part in "The Girl Who Stayed at Home." After these two pictures were released he was showered with offers from motion picture producers, and as a result
gave up the speaking stage for film work.
During the past few years he has been starred in eight pictures, and was featured in "Don't Ever Marry," "The Sky Pilot" and other notable productions.
He lately finished playing a prominent part in "Poor Men's Wives." One of his finest films was made under the direction of King Vidor, where Butler was starred with Zazu Pitts in a production titled "The Other Half."
Mr. Butler is unmarried and lives with his father in Hollywood.
He is a baseball fan and during the summer season he may be seen daily in the Los Angeles ball park.
He is six feet tall, weighs 190 pounds, has dark hair and dark blue eyes.
iation is rehearsing a scene with his
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